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Role
  
Ice hockey player

Career end
  
1990

Name
  
Larry Playfair

Career start
  
1978


Playing career
  
1978–1990

Weight
  
98 kg

National team
  
Canada

Height
  
1.93 m

Positions
  
Defenseman

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Born
  
June 23, 1958 (age 65) Fort St. James, BC, CAN (
1958-06-23
)

NHL Draft
  
13th overall, 1978 Buffalo Sabres

Played for
  
Buffalo Sabres, Los Angeles Kings

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Larry William Playfair (born June 23, 1958 in Fort St. James, British Columbia) is a retired former professional ice hockey player with a reputation as a hard-working, pugnacious defender. He played for the Buffalo Sabres and Los Angeles Kings in the NHL and he has worked as a color analyst for Sabres television broadcasts since his 1990 retirement due to chronic back problems. His younger brother Jim Playfair shares a lot of the same characteristics - both were drafted in the first round of the NHL Entry Draft (Larry in 1978 and Jim in 1982), and both played junior hockey for the Portland Winter Hawks of the Western Hockey League. However, Larry played 688 career NHL games; Jim a mere 21.

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Playfair currently lives on Grand Island, New York. Evidently he was president of the Sabres Alumni Association spanning at least December 2007 and March 2012.

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Career statistics

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--- Regular Season --- ---- Playoffs ---- Season Team Lge GP G A Pts PIM GP G A Pts PIM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1974-75 Langley Lords BCJHL 0 0 0 0 0 1974-75 Kamloops Chiefs WCHL 1 0 0 0 0 -- -- -- -- -- 1975-76 Langley Lords BCJHL 0 0 0 0 0 1975-76 Kamloops Chiefs WCHL -- -- -- -- -- 3 0 0 0 0 1976-77 Portland Winter Hawks WCHL 65 2 17 19 199 8 0 0 0 4 1977-78 Portland Winter Hawks WCHL 71 13 19 32 402 8 0 2 2 58 1978-79 Hershey Bears AHL 45 0 12 12 148 -- -- -- -- -- 1978-79 Buffalo Sabres NHL 26 0 3 3 60 -- -- -- -- -- 1979-80 Buffalo Sabres NHL 79 2 10 12 145 14 0 2 2 29 1980-81 Buffalo Sabres NHL 75 3 9 12 169 8 0 0 0 26 1981-82 Buffalo Sabres NHL 77 6 10 16 258 4 0 0 0 22 1982-83 Buffalo Sabres NHL 79 4 13 17 180 5 0 1 1 11 1983-84 Buffalo Sabres NHL 76 5 11 16 209 3 0 0 0 0 1984-85 Buffalo Sabres NHL 72 3 14 17 157 5 0 3 3 9 1985-86 Buffalo Sabres NHL 47 1 2 3 100 -- -- -- -- -- 1985-86 Los Angeles Kings NHL 14 0 1 1 28 -- -- -- -- -- 1986-87 Los Angeles Kings NHL 37 2 7 9 181 -- -- -- -- -- 1987-88 Los Angeles Kings NHL 54 0 7 7 197 3 0 0 0 14 1988-89 Los Angeles Kings NHL 6 0 3 3 16 -- -- -- -- -- 1988-89 Buffalo Sabres NHL 42 0 3 3 110 1 0 0 0 0 1989-90 Buffalo Sabres NHL 4 0 1 1 2 -- -- -- -- -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NHL Totals 688 26 94 120 1812 43 0 6 6 111

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References

Larry Playfair Wikipedia
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